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Every entry in our sweepstakes powers our work keeping rivers cold and fish thriving.
April, particularly in the West, is a bona-fide shoulder month. Higher up, it’s still winter. In the valleys, spring is springing and water is rising. It’s a tough month for trout fishing, given the transition happening between winter and spring and all the trappings that come with it, both good and bad. Video of Trouts…
As a western fly fisherman who has never wet a line east of Colorado, I was drawn into Walt Franklin’s account of fishing a variety of rivers and streams near his home along the Pennsylvania/New York border. The watersheds of three rivers – the Genesee, the Allegheny, and Pine Creek – can be traced to…
By Chris Hunt The first time I visited a blackwater swamp, I was probably about 12. My dad rented a little jon boat from the marina near Uncertain, Texas, and he manned the tiller as we glided over the glassy waters of Caddo Lake. I was instantly enchanted. At the time, 35 years ago, East…
Years ago, when I worked for TU’s Public Lands Initiative, we’d often wind down a big day in the field with a cocktail. Back then, the PLI was what I liked to call the TU Delta Force. We existed, but we never really acknowledged that fact—our staffers weren’t biologists or policy wonks. We were anglers,…
“Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountai n day; whatever his fate, long life, short life,…
Photo courtesy of Mike Kirkpatrick Imagine hiking for hours through dense brush, over ridges and bluffs among a Jurassic setting, your fly rod tucked into your backpack, along with a day’s provisions—maybe even a tent for an overnighter—just to get to your favorite fishing hole. You arrive, string up your fly rod and start walking…
“It’s just ten minutes of dirt, and then we’ll be able to fish all day!” The photo above is particularly painful for me. This shot was taken on a TU media tour a decade ago, when I and a host of TU staffers hosted several reporters, photographers and TV personalities on trip into the Wyoming…